So (LOL) can you guys at CC explain the ramifications of this to those at DU

[obumazombie]

I love it when libs anywhere in the world say "invest".

[jukin]

I could not be happier about the lurch to the left that france has taken. This means that france will tank economically in 6-9 months. france tanking means that the whole eu will mushroom cloud within a year. The Germans and north euros will not put up paying for the rest of europe partying on their hard work.

As posted earlier, when the complete failure of these policies come it will be somebody or someone else that caused it. Sound familiar?

JDPriestly (31,804 posts)
7. My advice to the French: If you are going to raise corporate taxes,

impose a big penalty in the form of a large cash pay-out to each employee when laid off or fired without good cause.

Otherwise, the exodus of industry to the third world will increase.

Hollande is already proposed to making laying off so expensive that layoffs will never happen.

[Danglars]

Hollande is already proposed to making laying off so expensive that layoffs will never happen.

Well, the companies will simply go out of business, then. And that'll be that.

[Bad Dog]

Well, the companies will simply go out of business, then. And that'll be that.

Thats easy, just make going out of business illegal.  This shit is easy once you get the dummie mindset.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Deutschsland Uber Alles.  (At least on the Continent, anyway.)

Yeah, and largely not even through the ambitions of the Germans themselves, so much as the failings of the Europeans to their west and south (However, the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hugarians, and Croats aren't nearly as messed up as Old Europe, their time under Soviet domination was a long and instructive course in 'How not to do things').

Historical note, the War of 1870 was entirely provoked by France, which wanted to put the newborn German Empire under the Kingdom of Prussia in a solid second place in Continental Europe, under a pretext which was ridiculously contrived that it was on a level of the casus belli of the Central American Soccer War.  It did not work out as planned for France.

[Mr Mannn]

I would like to explain the consequences to liberals, but I won't.

I say let them reap what they have sown. No one can blame Bush for this. the EU is dead set on its own destruction. Sucking on a gun barrel with your finger on a trigger has consequences. liberals have been warned way to many times. 

Here in the US we can revolt if we have too. Socialism and communism cannot exist where a free people bear arms.

[sybilll]

Wasn't France's idea of austerity to reduce to size of government growth to 1%, with no reduction in taxes?  No wonder it didn't work. 

[thundley4]

Wasn't France's idea of austerity to reduce to size of government growth to 1%, with no reduction in taxes?  No wonder it didn't work. 

The French idea of austerity is taking a bath every month instead of every two weeks.

[98ZJUSMC]

  Quote from: Ballygrl on Today at 04:36:08 am
People on the left can't seriously look at California and think their utopia has been successful.

Are you kidding? It's the left.  California is still a work in progress, but it must be remembered that the left is not merely anti-business or anti-capitalism.  They are firmly anti-human. 

Yep.  No matter what, they will default to their "they just didn't do it right" modus operendi and proceed to triple down on teh stoopid.  Some, with functioning cerebral synapses, will wake up.  They are most definitely anti-people.

[Duke Nukum]

I heard this on the radio today and I thought, "France is committing suicide with Socialism."

And they are!

[BlueStateSaint]

The French idea of austerity is taking a bath every month instead of every two weeks.

Coffee on the monitor . . . H5!

[vlad335]

An American lefty comments at reuters:

USAPragmatist wrote:

So what are al you righties going to say when/if ( I nor you all can make anything but a guess about what going to happen) France starts to have economic growth with the ‘Socialists’ in power. After all what they where doing before wasn’t working, austerity, so why not try something else? Only foools would continue to try the same thing that wasn’t working in the first place? Personally I am not a big fan of the French, but got to give them credit for bucking the obvious downward spiral associated with austerity during a recession.


When was France ever conservative when it comes to economics?

The left said the same things when the socialists took over Spain a few years back. How did that work out DUmmies?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

When David Cameron, Britain’s conservative prime minister, was relayed on French radio news programmes on Tuesday morning declaring that he would “roll out the red carpet” to French companies escaping François Hollande’s plans to hoist taxes, he hit a raw spot for many of the country’s business leaders.

It was a double whammy when they saw the headline in the leading financial newspaper Les Echos proclaiming that President Hollande’s new Socialist government was set to include an extra tax on company dividends.

Within hours, Laurence Parisot, head of Medef, the employers’ federation, was venting the frustration felt by many in the French business community.

The concern is not just about Mr Hollande’s heavy emphasis on using a battery of taxes on the wealthy and on enterprises to help close France’s budget deficit. It extends to a range of other proposals, such as plans to add new legislation to the country’s already extensive employment protection regime.

“We’ve had many meetings with the staff in ministries to explain what’s happening, but we are becoming deeply distressed. We fear a systematic strangling,” Ms Parisot said.

The worries are that action by the new government will compound an economic outlook already rendered seriously bleak by the eurozone crisis. Ms Parisot’s warning coincided with latest data from Insee, the state statistics institute, showing business confidence falling to its lowest level since late 2009.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/991161ee-ba1c-11e1-84dc-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1yLzLG4D9

Hollande tried to boil his frogs too fast.

[thundley4]

Hollande tried to boil his frogs too fast.

I'm sure that Canada and Mexico would happily welcome more US businesses if Obama gets his way here.

[Aristotelian]

London is already the fifth largest French city (in terms of population of frogs)...somehow I see the number living there rising. It will be the most productive and energised who leave...but socialist economies have no need of such people.

[Bad Dog]

London is already the fifth largest French city (in terms of population of frogs)...somehow I see the number living there rising. It will be the most productive and energised who leave...but socialist economies have no need of such people.

Damn, I hope they don't start showing up over here. We have enough trouble with the Cajuns.